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Member of the European Parliament · Sweden The Left

Jonas Sjöstedt

MEP for Sweden · The Left · Vänsterpartiet · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left, Sweden) has declared 72 lobby meetings this term - rank 305 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 13 of 45 within The Left.

36% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - below the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

72
declared meetings
current term
72
records since 2019
full dataset
36%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
305/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
13/45
rank in The Left

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Compared with the averages

Jonas Sjöstedt, this term
72
Parliament average
85
The Left average
58

Transparency this term

Monthly declared meetings (bars) and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link, including diplomatic and government entries (line), July 2024 to September 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 11 Sep 2026: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 10 in Nov 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 2 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 10 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 5 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 6 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 2 declared meetingsJune 2025: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 6 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 3 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 3 declared meetingsApril 2026: 2 declared meetingsMay 2026: 6 declared meetingsJune 2026: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 1 declared meetingAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 10 declared in November 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Jonas Sjöstedt meets most

Counterparts are merged by resolved Transparency Register identity where possible. An entry counts as register-linked above only when the MEP declaration itself carries a Register link.

Where the meetings cluster

Most-met sectors

Environment & climate (12), Human rights & humanitarian (6), Transport & automotive (4)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (20), Budgetary Control (3), Foreign Affairs (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Jul 2026European Anglers Alliance MemberWater Framework Directive
5 Jun 2026Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) Shadow rapporteurAutomotive Omnibus
3 Jun 2026AVERE - The European Association for Electromobility Shadow rapporteurAutomotive Omnibus
30 May 2026Greenpeace SwedenMemberAnti-SLAPP and the Russian shadow fleet
20 May 2026World Bank GroupMemberDevelopment aid issues
16 May 2026RF-SISUMemberOpportunities for children and young people to participate in sports in northern Sweden
13 May 2026Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)Shadow rapporteurCO2 standards
12 May 2026CRTA MemberEuropean parliamentarism, democracy, and the EU's decision-making process
6 May 2026Provea Acceso a la JusticiaMemberHuman rights
24 Apr 2026Umeå Deponi och Avfallscenter ABMemberWaste management and environmental issues
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
21 Apr 2026The International Federation for Rights and Development (IFRD)MemberHuman rights
27 Mar 2026WWF European Policy Programme Shadow rapporteur for opinionPerformance Regulation Framework
17 Mar 2026Stiftelsen The Stockholm Environment Institute MemberEnvironmental policy and EU enlargement
11 Mar 2026DEM Party StrasbourgMemberSituation in Iran and the position of Kurdish people
26 Feb 2026Action Network Human RightsMemberHuman rights in Philippines
25 Feb 2026ViettanMemberHuman rights in Vietnam, EU-Vietnam trade agreement
11 Feb 2026Lantbrukarnas Riksförbund MemberAgricultural policy
22 Jan 2026Association for Peace and JusticeMemberDeveloping Situation in Kurdish Regions of Syria
20 Jan 2026Chinese Mission to the EUMemberEU-China relations & Gui Minhai
14 Jan 2026NaturskyddsföreningenMemberCAP
7 Jan 2026WWF European Policy Programme Shadow rapporteur for opinionMFF interim report
12 Nov 2025Einride AB MemberElectrification road transport
11 Nov 2025UNRWAMemberPalestine
22 Oct 2025Plastic Recyclers EuropeShadow rapporteurELV
21 Oct 2025ViettanMemberHR in Vietnam
15 Oct 2025WWF European Policy Programme Shadow rapporteur for opinionLIFE/Nature funding in MFF
15 Oct 2025Reporters sans frontières MemberGui Minhai
14 Oct 2025Västra GötalandsregionenMemberGreen transition
7 Oct 2025Mission of P.R. China to the EUMemberEU-China relations
25 Sep 2025United WomenMemberUkrainian refugees

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Jonas Sjöstedt held the seat, 537 of them the final vote on a text. A member with no vote recorded may have been on parliamentary business, ill, on leave, or present without voting - the published record does not distinguish these and gives no reason. Votes taken by show of hands or by secret ballot are not recorded by name and are absent here.

89%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
474
final texts voted on
of 537
81%
voted with the The Left majority
on 442 final texts
82
differed from The Left
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Jonas Sjöstedt537 final votes
60%21%12%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 442 final texts where more than half of The Left members casting a vote went one way, and Jonas Sjöstedt also voted. Groups are not bound to vote together: a Member's mandate is personal and exercised freely, so neither figure is a measure of performance.

Voted with the The Left majority36081%
Voted differently8219%

Final texts where Jonas Sjöstedt differed from the The Left majority

72 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.

Unlinked but matchable

7 counterpart entrys in Jonas Sjöstedt's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

Matching is automated and can be wrong - see how matching works. Linking the register entry is the fix, and it is the MEP office's to make.